Creative constraints can be powerful tools for activating our imagination and stretching our creativity. One of my favourite constraints is to create a collage with only one magazine page as material. Here’s an example. I hope you’ll try it too!
Author: Jamie
Junk Journal Journey – Facebook Live!
The Junk Journal Journey class starts this today! We’ll spend 5 weeks creating Junk Journals together, working with inspiring paper materials, exploring our own themes and tuning into our unique artistic voice. Everyone will end up with a journal that unique expression of their creative heart and the adventure we’ve shared.
This week I held a Facebook Live session to Q&A. I hope the video of the event will help you decide if this e-course is for you.
Register Now & Join Me on the Junk Journal Journey!
We’re going to have such a great time!
Registration is $65 USD
For more information click here. We start today!
Our Junk Journal Journey Starts Tomorrow!
There’s a new class starting in The Academy this weekend and I wanted to be sure you didn’t miss it: Junk Journal Journey.
A Junk Journal is a handmade journal created with found papers, such as junk mail (hence the name), old calendars, pages from books and magazines. It’s the perfect place for the paper ephemera of your life – cards, stickers, letters, leftover stationary, etc.
Creating a junk journal is a fun, easy and unintimidating step into the world of visual journaling.
In the Junk Journal Journey Course you will …
Gather: Every step on this journey is a discovery process. Gathering your materials will be not just a practical exercise but a way for you to hear the stirrings of inspiration in your creative heart.
Envision: You’ll have the opportunity to choose and explore a theme to bring to life through your junk journal so that you’ll have a focused exploration and finish tangible expression of your vision.
Create: You will create a Junk Journal that is uniquely yours, one that expresses your vision and style!
Collage: Once you have made the basic form of the journal, you’ll continue to develop it and your theme with additional collage.
Embellishment: You’ll finish the whole thing off by adding in some drawings, doodles and embellishments – another step in personalizing your very own junk journal.
A Little Note: Don’t be intimidated by any step in this journey! There is nothing here you can’t do. Our goal is to keep it simple and doable and to have fun and grow creatively along the way. We’ll be taking our time with each step so that we can actually enjoy the process while we’re learning and creating.
The Junk Journal Journey Course gives you …
A Weekly Video Lesson: Every Saturday you’ll get a new video lesson teaching you the next step of the process. Of course, you can choose to watch at a time that is convenient for you.
A Chance to Learn & Enjoy: Each week we will take one step on the Junk Journal Journey. This gives you time to get grounded and comfortable with each creative step. Plus, it gives you time to enjoy the process! After all, isn’t that what creating a junk journal is all about?
A Creative Practice: Having a focus, a community and a schedule is a great way to support you in being creative throughout our time together. When you spend dedicated time developing a creative habit, you allow it to take hold in your creative life.
A Creative Community: You won’t be alone on this journey! You’ll be a part of a group of creative hearts learning, growing and creating right along side you – plus the guidance of a creative living coach – that’s me!
You Time: Having a structure and support can make all the difference in taking time for your creativity and bringing a project to life. You may just be surprised at how much making your junk journal nourishes your artistic soul.
Your Unique Junk Journal: At the end of the course, if you’ve followed along and taken all the steps, you’ll have your own junk journal – a tangible expression of your creative vision and unique style!
The Details
Format: This is an online e-course delivered through a series of video lessons.
Schedule: Junk Journal Journey runs February 25 to March 25. Lessons will be released on Saturdays.
Feb 25: Intro & Gathering on a Theme
March 3: Assembling
March 11: Collage Elements
March 18: Embellishing
March 25: Celebrating & Sharing
Supplies: I’ve kept to the basics for this course but you are welcome to get as fancy as you like during your Junk Journal Journey
- Paper Materials: such as old calendar pages, flyers, office supplies, paper bags, pages from secondhand books
- Collage Materials: such as magazines, ephemera and, again, secondhand or old books
- Binding: an awl, an upholstery or book-binding needle and some waxed linen thread or embroidery yarn
- Adhesive: Glue stick and/or tape adhesive
- Embellishment: Some pens that will work on whatever kind of paper you use
- Tape (optional but recommended): Washi tape and packing tape or decorative Duck Tape.
Your Guide: Jamie Ridler. A journaler for decades, I am a creative living coach who has led creative workshops covering everything from dreamboards to journaling for entrepreneurs. I am also the founder of Give a Girl a Journal, a do-good initiative that brings journals to girls around the world!
Community: We will have a private Facebook group where we can continue to be in community and encourage one another’s junk journal journey!
Register Now & Join Me on the Junk Journal Journey!
We’re going to have such a great time!
Registration is $65 USD
Junk Journals, Creativity, & Your Artistic Profile
Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday morning I invite you Behind the Scenes at my studio.
Today: I am wrapping up a whirlwind of a week getting ready for our Junk Journal Journey and it’s led me to thinking about all the different ways there are to be creative (plus all the ways judgment can shut us down!)
Mentioned in Today’s Show
- Junk Journal Journey
- stART: Creating as We Go
- Vanguard Tripod
- Success Principles by Jack Canfield
- The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N Aron
- Creating a Life Worth Living by Carol Lloyd
Join me on the Junk Journal Journey adventure. We start tomorrow!
Creative Projects, Focus & Getting Things Done
Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday morning I invite you Behind the Scenes at my studio.
Today: I am working on strategies for focusing on projects instead of pinging between them, plus I am so excited to begin Junk Journal Journey on Saturday!
Mentioned in Today’s Show
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stART: Creating as We Go – Bonbon, Rocket or Birdcage? Plus: Drawing x 3 (episode 75)
In this episode we mention…
- Suzie makes an awesome olive loaf for her foodie cookbook and memoir. BTW… you can still buy stuff from Suzie’s Etsy Shop
- I share the experience (and comic!) I’m making in the Writing and Drawing Comic Class with Summer Pierre and work from the Doings of a Do-o-dle class with Diana Culhane.
- Shannon talks about experimenting with starting the days with art including Carla Sonheim’s 365 Class and also shares that she’s started posting drawing videos over at YouTube.
- Oh! And this is the drawing-at-cafe’s YouTuber Shannon mentioned.
Keep up-to-date with stART: Creating As We Go
Journal Jam, Change, Roots & Wings
Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday morning I invite you Behind the Scenes at my studio.
Today: I’m prepping for Journal Jam, braving change at the podcast and excited to share more birds with you!
Mentioned in Today’s Show
- Journal Club
- Creative Living with Jamie
- Kim LeClair
- Shannon Ridler
- 365 with Carla Sonheim
